Bienvenu chez le Jacobs Center!

Led by Dr. Clarissa Janousch, a new z-proso study analyzed hair samples from over 1,000 young adults to test the link between hair cortisol and psychosocial stress.

The Jacobs Center's Risk and Resilience research area (PI: Prof. Lilly Shanahan), alongside the Digital and Mobile Health Team, co-published a new z-proso study led by Drs. David Bürgin and Christina Haag (funded via a UZH PRC seed grant). As one of the world's first large-scale longitudinal studies using automated language processing on open-ended text, it preserves young people's perspectives in their own words.

A big congratulations to Dr. Lukas Eggenberger on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation: Substance Use, Cognition, and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood: Insights from Longitudinal Hair Biomarker Data. We celebrate this remarkable achievement and wish him all the best in his future academic career!

Half of young men in Switzerland are concerned that “real men” are increasingly being marginalized in society. A large-scale study by the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich (UZH) in collaboration with männer.ch shows how prevalent restrictive and dominance-based concepts of masculinity are. These ideas go hand in hand with misogyny, a propensity for violence, and opposition to gender equality. Prevention efforts should start in schools. 

How parental behavior changes over the course of childhood and how it is linked to the development of key brain structures is examined in a new study by PhD candidate and first author Mirjam Habegger and a research team from the NMR Kids Lab led by Prof. Nora M. Raschle.